Jennifer Jareau

Jennifer Jareau
'Criminal Minds' character
[[File:‎File:Jjareau.jpg|frameless]] AJ Cook as Jennifer Jareau
First appearance	"Compulsion"
Created by	Jeff Davis
Portrayed by	AJ Cook
In-universe information
Nickname	JJ
Title	FBI BAU Supervisory Special Agent
Occupation	FBI agent
Family	unnamed older sister (deceased)
Spouse	William LaMontagne Jr (boyfriend)
Children	Henry

Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (played by AJ Cook) is a fictional character from the CBS crime drama series Criminal Minds.

JJ acts as the team's liaison with the media and local police agencies. Though talented and helpful, she is not actually a profiler, having once declined Hotchner's suggestion to "take the classes" to qualify as one.^E207 When JJ was 11 her sister committed suicide. JJ graduated from East Allegheny High School near Pittsburgh, PA, where she was the captain of the varsity soccer team her senior year and earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh. She also at one point attended Georgetown.^E415 In the same episode, JJ told Rossi that she decided to join the FBI after attending one of his book readings at the campus library during her senior year of college. She said she hadn't known what to do with her life until she listened to his reading, and had applied to the Academy the next fall. JJ mostly works out of the confines of the police stations and field offices the team visits, but does accompany the team on raids. (She is also known to be a crack shot, as when she shot and killed James Colby Baylor/Jason Clark Battle after he took hostages inside the BAU in 3x09, "Penelope".)

In 2x06, ("The Boogeyman") she reveals she is afraid of the woods, when Morgan & Reid ask her why she tells them a chilling story of her working as a camp cousellor and discovering the murdered body of her boss in his cabin. After telling the story she admits the story was false, and states she doesn't know why she has this fear. She also states in this episode that she has a niece that at the time is about 8 years old.

When she and Reid split up the night of Reid's abduction by Tobias Hankel, JJ walked into a dark barn and was attacked by several murderous dogs, which she shot and killed. After this it appears that she had a huge fear of dogs. This had a huge emotional impact on her, but has not come up since. She once went on a date with Reid to a Washington Redskins game, but little came of it romantically, although the two are very good friends as she asked him to be her son's godfather. In episode 3x17 ("In Heat") it was revealed that she was dating Detective William LaMontagne Jr., with whom the team had worked on a case in New Orleans ^E218. Despite being together for over a year, J.J. kept the relationship a secret from the team (though at the end of the episode it is revealed that they apparently have known about the relationship for quite some time). After J.J. told Will that she was pregnant with his child^E318, he later asked her to marry him, and indicated that he was willing to give up his shield in order to help take care of the baby and allow her to continue to do her job, though he was worried about her safety and the safety of their child.^E320 JJ later told Hotch she had found a temporary replacement for the duration of her maternity leave^E405, and soon after gave birth to a baby boy named Henry.^E407 JJ and Will named Garcia and Reid as Henry's godparents. When JJ comes back from maternity leave she and Will had exchanged rings with Henry's birthstone, not making them officially engaged as the ring is on her right hand and there appears to be no ring on her left hand. After solving a murder case, that was passed off as suicides, JJ revealed to Hotch that when she was 11, her sister came into her room and gave JJ her favourite necklace and told her that no matter what happened, she loved her. That was the last time that she ever saw her. She told Hotch that losing someone does get easier, and one day, you'll wake up and thinking about them won't hurt.

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